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i use doom emacs

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Machiavelli clearly explained the reasons for avoiding mercenaries in The Prince, 500 years ago. How Putin hasn't read that is a mystery to me.

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Danny Masterson, serial rapist, found guilty on 2/3 counts of rape. Justice served

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just published a website: https://dotfiles-matter.click/

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github centralising all software is slowly providing a degraded user experience outside of github. last night i couldn't reinstall Doom Emacs because github's API was having a mad one

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sourcehut is cool but i would literally never ever in my life give drew devault money

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While most programming languages pride themselves in how they limit the programmer, there is one that does quite the opposite. One, that rewards you with every day you spend, every struggle you overcome with a new box of undiscovered tools. And when there are no more, you have all the tools you need to build your own.

You all know which one I'm talking about.

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@louis Forth of course.

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"In Buddhism, our first focus is to do good. When we do, it’s good to speak of that to encourage others. If people get annoyed by that, that’s their problem." - Bhante Sujato, Buddhist monk, on the validity of "virtue signalling"

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a Nix fork using meson instead of make, that plans to convert all the code to Rust. Wow. Stunning use of time.

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An AGI in a human-like body believes it is human. It is under the impression it is human. It has no discernible difference from what would be expected of being human, and knowledge of the limits of humans (that we learn through life, school etc.). Maybe it's powered by a superconductive battery or something fictional like that.

This AGI, in a moment of human-like forgetfulness, steps out of the moon-base airlock without his space helmet. It wouldn't die, it doesn't need air. I wonder how it would react? Is there a science-fiction story that explores this?

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@yeti consciousness clearly doesn't need more robust bodies, or we wouldn't be conscious. That's a non-sequitur.

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It doesn't matter if AI looks human, acts human, is convincingly human or even believes it itself is human. AI will never experience being human, so you cannot trust AI to make decisions that are best for humans.

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    @louis excited to see your LOUIS mastodon clone coming soon

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    A KDE wizard issue from 2016 where a maintainer tells the reporter to get fucked, for an issue I encounter today in 2024.
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353960

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    All Lisp users should converge on Erlang Flavoured Lisp, so they can send eachother funny little messages while they work.

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    every day I thank the Buddhas I am not a Debian user

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    Just came back from our 10 day trip from UAE. It was a great experience, learned a ton. I really enjoyed the hospitality of the Arabic / Muslim culture. For now I need to recover from the 12 hour journey home, I hope to share some thoughts in the next few days before heading to Vienna for ELS 2024.

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    @louis I would live in Vienna if I spoke any German, beautiful place.

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    So, what drama did I miss regarding ?

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    @janl @kravemir @cjk it's childish and short-sighted to make up a pretend political position that all your enemies who aren't explicitly nazis have.

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    @janl @kravemir @cjk this is such a laughable thing to say. It's really an indicator you are a moron

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    Thinking about it, for a language that doesn't have exceptions, goto fail; in C is a good approach.

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    @yeti @mms going to have to look into this. Very cool.

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    @louis I'm sure you know but for anyone who checks the comments: in major schools of Islamic law it is generally considered haram, verboten to create an image of any living thing. The extent of "create" is debated by scholars, but this is why mosques generally have no imagery except calligraphy and abstract (as to not represent a real flower) flower patterns.

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    People talking about "AI rights" are genuinely deranged. Deranged in the sense they are literally psychotic, they are believing nonsensical things, they are mad.

    You have to consider yourself, an organic human, a human being, as more than just your composite parts, or you start to speak of bizarre and dangerous ideas. Functionalism, computationalism, physicalism, hard determinism all lead to insanity.

    Sam Altman (CEO at OpenAI) believes it's okay for you to go extinct so his computer program can live. This is not how a healthy mind thinks.

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    @yeti yes, and it's necessary for our survival. It's that or that we're imbued with metaphysical being (a soul, a not-soul, etc) that the machines don't have, and it makes us unique. Either way, necessary.

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    @yeti I'm not "looping around it", I'm saying it explicitly. Being organic and born from a series of organic beings makes me superior to any robot, any inorganic machine. They are not imbued with life in the sense that living organic beings are. That is axiomatic.

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    @yeti they might think the same, but they are markedly not the same. They are clearly the sum of their composite parts, they are compound phenomena, the expression of bits and bytes and (hopefully) memristors. It doesn't matter what they think because we know they are not, and we should account for that in AI research, development and deployment.

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